A public meeting regarding the proposed ZOM Bethesda luxury apartments project in the 7500 block of Arlington Road will be held on
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 7:00 PM in the All-Purpose room at Bethesda Elementary School. The school is diagonally across from the site of the project, which will demolish several homes to make way for the new building.
The 60' tall building will house 235 units, a lobby cafe, a fitness center, landscaped terraces, and an underground parking garage. Florida-based ZOM has promised to offer 15% affordable units, which is higher than Montgomery County's required 12.5%.
Renderings courtesy ZOM
...I'm patiently waiting for Dyer's article about how MoCo making Amazon's top-20 is a negative and totally Hans' fault....
ReplyDeleteDon’t hold your breath..
Delete9:25: It appears to be a list of places with local governments that share Bezos' radical political views, not a list of business-friendly jurisdictions. Hardly an endorsement of our merits as a business destination. We haven't attracted a single major corporate headquarters in two decades, a humiliation that speaks for itself.
ReplyDeleteWhat "political views" does Bezos have that aren't shared by the vast majority of Western civilization? You do realize you're the political outlier, right, Robert? Or do you need to lose another election to hammer that realization home?
ReplyDeleteCan you name a vibrant city that doesn't share Bezos' political views, Robert? You're honestly surprised bids from "business friendly" places like Kansas and Alabama were discarded?
ReplyDelete10:11: You obviously aren't familiar with the political and world views of Jeff Bezos. Considering I want the government out of the liquor business, want to reduce traffic congestion and complete our highway system, eliminate the achievement gap in MCPS, and protect neighborhoods from urbanization, I'm certainly not an "outlier" by any means.
ReplyDelete10:15: You have a very strange and narrow view of the meaning of "vibrant," as does Bezos.
You deflected from the question asked by 10:11.
ReplyDeleteWhat "political views" does Bezos have that aren't shared by the vast majority of Western civilization?
You made the statement, "that share Bezos' radical political views" so spill it...what are these radical views?
Columbus, Dallas, Indianapolis, Nashville, Raleigh... those notorious hippie havens...
ReplyDeleteInteresting NYT article today, mentioning what some cities are offering.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/technology/cities-amazon-headquarters.html
"We haven't attracted a single major corporate headquarters in two decades, a humiliation that speaks for itself."
ReplyDeleteBy your dumbass definition Amazon opening a location here still wouldn't count as a "major corporate headquarters" since technically it'll still count as a Washington state F500. MoCo has added over 80,000 jobs so far this decade - significantly outpacing Fairfax - and, according to you, not a single one of those counts for shit. There's a reason you're mocked nonstop, Dyer.
What do the numbers on the last image refer to?
ReplyDeleteYou note that “several houmes will be demolished to make way for the new development”. Isn’t this a bit alarmist, in that all of those existing single family homes are being used as offices? Looks like a nice project to me, and a nice transition from the urban center to more lower scale density west of Arlington Road. Many apartments will have a nice view of the large open green space if the elementary school as well.
ReplyDeleteYou'd think that a "lifelong Bethesda resident" like Robert Dyer would know that those "homes" have actually been offices for the past three decades.
ReplyDeleteThe Bethesda Plan requires 15% MPDUs (affordable housing), so Zom is doing only what’s required.
ReplyDeleteShusshhh, 3:06 & 3:23 PM. Now Dyer will go on and on about "turning into a bedroom community".
ReplyDelete3:06 -- It's more than just "alarmist," it's outright fabrication. One might even say... #FakeNews.
ReplyDeleteIt's weird, to make sweeping statements and simply refuse to back them up.
ReplyDelete1:02: We most definitely have not added more private sector jobs than Fairfax in this decade. What have you been smoking? I was in the room when the Chamber of Commerce announced how badly Fairfax had beaten us one year, and there was an audible gasp from the audience. Humiliating! Stop lying.
ReplyDeleteYou're damn right a secondary headquarters doesn't count as THE headquarters.
Seems like every morning I get up and Robert Dyer has a report about another new development.
ReplyDelete"You're damn right a secondary headquarters doesn't count as THE headquarters."
ReplyDeleteIt's crap like this why everyone mocks you. Even if Amazon hired 50,000 people you'd keep up with your anti-MoCo crap. Just because your life is shitty doesn't mean our county sucks, Robert. Only the absolute dregs have trouble finding adequate employment here.
12:39: Which is how you ended up in this crappy job defending the MoCo cartel on social media all day.
ReplyDelete